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Taking proper care of your body, be it food, exercise or psychological treatment, has a powerful influence on how we feel and affect others. With this page I would like to share with you informative articles around nutrition, exercise and mental health.

Once you know which oils you'd like to use, you need to decide which brand/label/certification/criteria you have to look out for. To make this a little bit easier for you, I've created an overview - one for coconut oil and one for olive oil - to help you choose the right oil.

We all have it, whether it's on a piece of paper or just in our head - the New Year's resolution list. Mostly it's associated with getting healthier. I had them too, but since a couple of years I stopped. Read here why.

According to google trends, plant based diet has had a massive increase on search engines over the past few months. People are getting more and more interested in the healthy benefits as well as the positive effects on the environment of a vegan diet. But is this really the magic solution to a long and healthy life?

If you really want to change your diet and lose weight for good, it's time to realize that there is no quick fix. No restrictive diet will give you long lasting results. It's a balanced nutrition becoming your lifestlye which will change your health for good.

Hot weather in Singapore is normal and with the AC in almost every building it is easy to cool down. But if you live in the northern hemisphere, keeping yourself refreshed isn't always that easy. When the temperature raises above 30 degrees Celsius, tiredness and lack of energy can distract you from enjoying summer to the fullest. Therefore I put together a few tips on how to stay cool during hot summers - without AC!

As fun as traveling can be, spending most of the time on the toilet is not. However, the different food and especially the different food quality in certain countries, can leave your stomach upset. Let me share with you some natural remedies to treat your unhappy belly.

Holidays are always something to look forward to, but nevertheless some people start to worry about their healthy diet and how to keep up with it on holidays. Every country brings their own culture and with it their own foods.

Jul 2, 2017

Mind

Everyone talks about getting strong, eating enough food and doing high intensity interval training (HIIT) to shed some extra weight. But no-one talks about the guilt people develop by missing one of their gym sessions. So let's have a closer look.

Thoughts in the head of an eating disordered person always circle around food, exercise, diets and calories. The moment you wake up to the time before you fall asleep. Either you are planning which diet to do next or you worry about what you’ve eaten the whole day. It’s like a prison and it needs more than a Michael Scofield to break you out of it.

Posts where women are flexing their biceps, showing their abs, lifting heavy weights and drinking protein shakes are currently flooding social media. Everyone wants to highlight that they are strong and not skinny.

Leading a healthy lifestyle is on everyone's lips but what does it really mean? Most people tend to equate being healthy with being lean and fit. And this might be true in some cases but definitely not in every case. The way we look on the outside does not tell how we feel or look on the inside. We can be lean but still feed our body with unhealthy food.

During this month of July, we invite you to take a look back on the past 6 months, on your new year resolutions perhaps and all the goals you had set out to achieve for the year. What have you accomplished and what is lacking? What obstacles did you face, and how did you overcome them?

Exercise

Everyone talks about getting strong, eating enough food and doing high intensity interval training (HIIT) to shed some extra weight. But no-one talks about the guilt people develop by missing one of their gym sessions. So let's have a closer look.

These days, everyone have some kind of postural deviation or imbalance. This is purely due to the majority of our time spent sitting, peering at screens and not getting enough stretching and posterior chain action in.

Summer marks vacation time for a lot of us and even though it is July, perhaps some of you are still planning that long trip you have been waiting for! Especially for long haul flights, sitting for hours in the airplane without moving and having poor air circulation can be incredibly deteriorating for the body.

As a teacher and student of yoga, I often see or hear people tell me that Yoga isn’t for them- they can’t touch their toes or they think they are too old or just that its boring. In this article we will be breaking down those excuses and building a stronger and more fearless approach to yoga.